Re: First impressions: strange groff default font behaviour after system upgrade

[Alexis]

Oliver Corff via <groff@gnu.org> writes:

> when starting evince I get
> the message
>
> Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to 
> socket
> /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied
>
> Never seen this before, I even do not know what at-spi is.
>
> Same with okular.

"at-spi" is "Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface":

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_Service_Provider_Interface

The error suggests you're trying to run evince and okular as root, 
in a GUI/desktop session running as a non-root user, with the 
latter being configured (perhaps by default) to support at-spi 
services.


Alexis.